Berkeley and Beyond
Unusual Messages in a Journey with God
The journey continues from Phyllis's previous book 'Boston to Berkeley'. She begins:
"I have done everything to avoid writing this book. I come up with a long list of reasons every day why I can’t write, can’t put the experience to paper, can’t tell you about the dream I had the other night. How can I possibly convey what it is like to be called to service by a prophet who lived in the 1st century?
But what am I resisting? Well, it has something to do with faith. As in, not enough of it, but that’s a hard admission for me to make, because this is a journey that’s all about faith. I’ve already written, in my first book, about being a leader and a faith activist, so imagine not having enough fuel to progress to the second leg of the journey. How do I explain that?
In my own defense, I have to say that I’ve not held myself out to be an expert in faith. I’ve been very careful not to call myself an expert in anything. Just a conduit for a message, that’s all. A message connected to every note in my soul, every breath I breathe. Yet, I run and hide and do everything in my power to say it’s not so.
But my dreams tell me the truth. They never lie, you know. We’re the ones who circumvent reality by falsely interpreting the truth. We are built that way. Trained to believe in illusion more than truth, because we need that foundation, we say, to suspend us long enough in time to give us what we need to go forward. The truth is too hard to handle, so we dilute it. We take reality in small, illusive doses. Denial is safer, more comforting to our sense of worth. It is the one thread of universal consciousness we probably all share , because we all need comfort..."
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